Syndicated from Kottke: For the past year, Joanna Goddard has been running a series on her blog called Motherhood Around the World. The goal of the series was to tease out how parenting in other countries is different than parenting in the US. I’ve picked out a few representative bits.

+ A school in North Carolina has bikes instead of desks, and the students who spent the most time on the bikes achieved the most proficiency in reading. (It’s gonna be a long night for my kids…)